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Faubourg Saint-Germain (French pronunciation: [fobuʁ sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃]) is a historic district of Paris, France. The Faubourg has long been known as the favourite home of the French high nobility and hosts many aristocratic hôtels particuliers. It is currently part of the 7th arrondissement of Paris.<br />
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History<br />
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Early Royal History<br />
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In its early history, Faubourg Saint-Germain was an agricultural suburb of Paris, lying west of the historical Saint-Germain-des-Prés urban district.<br />
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In 1670, Louis XIV began to build a grandiose hospital and retirement home for aged and unwell soldiers: the Invalides. The king chose a site at the western end of the Faubourg and commissioned architect Libéral Bruant. The enlarged project was completed in 1676. Stretching 196 metres along the Seine River, the complex had 15 courtyards, the largest being the cour d'honneur ("court of honour") for military parades. Jules Hardouin Mansart assisted the aged Bruant, and the chapel was finished in 1679 to Bruant's designs after the elder architect's death. The construction of the Invalides opened a new district to urbanizing, offering large empty spaces between the new monument and the old city limit.<br />
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During the 18th century, French high nobility started to move from the central Marais, the then-aristocratic district of Paris where nobles used to build their urban mansions (see Hotel de Soubise) to the clearer, less populated and less polluted Faubourg Saint-Germain that soon became the new residence of French highest nobility. The district became so fashionable within the French aristocracy that the phrase le Faubourg has been used to describe French nobility ever since. The oldest and most prestigious families of the French nobility built residences in the area, such as the Hôtel Matignon, the Hôtel de Salm or the Hôtel Biron.<br />
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The French Revolution<br />
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Riots that occurred on September 14, 1788, instigated by the retirement of the publicly-hated, royalist minister Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, resulted in troops being called into Faubourg Saint-Germain, and, according to Peter Kropotkin, "in the Rue Mélée and the Rue de Grenelle there was a horrible slaughter of poor folk who could not defend themselves."<br />
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During the French Revolution, many of these mansions, offering large reception rooms and exquisite decoration, were confiscated and turned into national institutions. The French expression "les ors de la Republique" (literally, "the golds of the Republic"), referring to the luxurious environment of the national palaces (official residences and institutions), comes from that time. One of the few hôtels particuliers that was not confiscated was the Hôtel de Besenval, as it belonged to Pierre Victor, Baron de Besenval de Brunstatt, a Swiss military officer in French service.<br />
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The Restorations<br />
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During the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty, the Faubourg recovered its past glory as the most exclusive high nobility district of Paris. Moreover, as home to the Ultra-royalist Party, it was the political center of the country. The Ultra pushed towards counter-revolutionary laws, reinforcing the Catholic Church's power (Anti-Sacrilege Act) and enacting the Loi du milliard aux émigrés (literally, the "Law of the Billion to the Emigrants" [meaning "Exiles"]), which allowed the French nobility to return from exile and compensated them for their loss of fortune and land in the Revolution.<br />
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However, after the fall of Charles X in 1830 during the July Revolution, the district lost most of its political influence. During the July Monarchy, from 1830 to 1848, when the junior Orleanist branch held the throne, the Faubourg was politically marginalized, many noble families withdrawing from active participation in political life to their châteaux in the countryside and their hôtels particuliers in Paris, urban mansions in the Faubourg and led a passive but brilliant social life.<br />
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"The world of the Faubourg Saint-Germain" of this era appears in Marcel Proust's epochal novel series In Search of Lost Time as "the world of Guermantes" – The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes) is the title of the third volume. The figure of the Duchess of Guermantes is inspired by the real countess Élisabeth Greffulhe. Proust depicts this exclusive "world" in all its facets, as well as the (mostly futile) efforts of social climbers (like himself) to penetrate it. The Nouveau riche had no access to this society. The families of the Ancien Régime even looked down on the Nobility of the First French Empire, the Napoleonic nobility, in the period before the First World War.<br />
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Thereafter, the Faubourg remained the center of French upper class social life. Nowadays, the Faubourg – as with the rest of the 7th arrondissement – is still one of the most exclusive districts of Paris.<br />
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Geography<br />
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The Faubourg Saint-Germain is the eastern part of the current 7th arrondissement, roughly the area between the Invalides, the 15th arrondissement and the 6th arrondissement's border. The neighborhood is more precisely bounded by the Seine River on the north, the Esplanade des Invalides/Boulevard des Invalides on the west, Rue de Babylone on the south, and the Boulevard Raspail and Boulevard Saint-Germain on the east.<br />
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(Wikipedia)<br />
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Faubourg Saint-Germain ist ein historischer Stadtteil von Paris, der lange Zeit als Mittelpunkt der vornehmen aristokratischen Gesellschaft galt. Das nach Germanus von Paris benannte Viertel besteht in etwa aus dem östlichen Teil des heutigen 7. Arrondissements zwischen dem Hôtel des Invalides, dem Quai d’Orsay und der Abtei Saint-Germain-des-Prés in der Rive Gauche. Der Stadtteil wird heute durch das Musée d’Orsay, das Palais Bourbon, das Musée Rodin, den Boulevard Saint-Germain, die Rue du Bac und etliche vornehme Stadtpalais und Cafés geprägt.<br />
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Bei Chateaubriand, Balzac, Poe und Proust wird die im 17. Jahrhundert neu besiedelte Vorstadt (Faubourg) eingehend literarisch auch als elitäre soziale Gruppe geschildert. Die Hôtels particuliers im Faubourg Saint-Germain wurden seit der Barockzeit als bevorzugte Wohnsitze durch den alten französischen Adel errichtet (siehe Hôtels particuliers im Faubourg Saint-Germain), nachdem das seit dem Mittelalter beliebte Marais aus der Mode gekommen war.<br />
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„Die Welt des Faubourg Saint-Germain“ erscheint in Prousts epochaler Romanfolge Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit auch als „die Welt der Guermantes“ (= Titel des dritten Bandes), wobei die Figur der Herzogin von Guermantes inspiriert ist durch die reale Comtesse de Greffulhe. Proust schildert diese exklusive „Welt“ in allen Facetten, ebenso die (meist vergeblichen) Bemühungen von Aufsteigern (wie ihm selbst), in diese Welt einzudringen. Neureiche hatten zu dieser Gesellschaft keinen Zutritt. Auch auf die Noblesse d’Empire, den napoleonischen Adel, blickten die Familien des Ancien Régime in der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg noch herab. Hannah Arendt benennt in ihrem Essay Faubourg Saint-Germain einige von Prousts Figuren des Bandes Sodom und Gomorra als Beispiele für die Wurzellosigkeit des assimilierten Judentums in Frankreich, darunter den Geldwechslersohn Swann, nach dem Vorbild des realen Charles Haas, dem es gelungen war, auch in höchsten Adelskreisen des Faubourg Saint-Germain zu verkehren.<br />
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